[Blog] OctoPrint On Air #11 (Patreon)

OctoPrint On Air #11

The eleventh episode of a monthly dev log/Q&A session about all things OctoPrint for my Patrons on Patreon. This time pre-recorded due to scheduling issues. My Patrons can submit questions to answer during the Q&A session via a Google Form before and - usually ;) - also live during the broadcast via the chat. Expect more videos like that roughly on a monthly schedule. If you want to attend the live broadcast and ask questions beforehand or live on air, consider becoming a Patron on Patreon and selecting one of the corresponding perks - that will also help me with continuing to work on OctoPrint full time, which I love doing! OctoPrint's webpage: http://octoprint.org Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/foosel ---- Links related to this episode: Ticket #1942 (Corrupted printer profile issue that lead to hotfix release 1.3.4): https://github.com/foosel/OctoPrint/issues/1942 Ticket #1946 (Slow cancelling in 1.3.4): https://github.com/foosel/OctoPrint/issues/1946 PrinterView (one of the farm management tools I mentioned, sadly no longer maintained as it looks like): https://github.com/quillford/PrinterView Poseidon (the other farm management tool I mentioned, command line interface): https://github.com/joshuarowley42/Poseidon OctoPrint On Air #3 (details regarding the challenges of print time estimation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCAMjqysBB0 ---- Intro What I have been up to 00:02:39 Release of 1.3.3 and 1.3.4 and why the hotfix release was pushed out, see also https://github.com/foosel/OctoPrint/issues/1942 00:07:16 Demo: How to switch to the "Maintenance RCs" release channel and help with testing 00:08:58 Working on 1.3.5 00:13:05 Cancel slow for you? I need help tracking this down! See also https://github.com/foosel/OctoPrint/issues/1946 00:16:22 Patreon survey for prioritization of potential 1.4.0 features 00:16:50 More work on 1.4.0 What's next 00:18:05 Maintenance madness, more work towards 1.4.0 00:18:44 Wanna help with the maintenance madness? Q&A 00:20:54 "Thinking at all of having a central control for a farm of OctoPrint devices? Have a way to monitor the health and versions of the devices?" 00:24:11 "Any chance of doing a calibration / timing run, to 'dial-in' the estimates for printing times?" 00:28:50 "Have you ever thought about a power-on default set of instructions? I always turn the thing on the start pre-heating the bed and the nozzle to a certain temperature." 00:31:04 "What new functionality or new roles would you like to see OctoPrint have in 5 years? Do you foresee a a day when OctoPrint will be "good enough," or is the feature wish list long (and coherent) enough to keep going indefinitely?" 00:36:55 "I use my 3D printer in my home office next to my dorm-room. Some prints take 20+ hours to finish and the printer noice keeps me sleepless the whole night. It would be nice to schedule "non print" times where the printer park the printhead on a save place outside from the printarea and starts again, when the "non print" time ends." Wrap-up